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Healthy soil is the hidden ingredient

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262 points gnabgib | 4 comments | 16 Apr 25 21:13 UTC | HN request time: 2.427s | source
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tbrownaw ◴[20 Apr 25 14:56 UTC] No.43744183[source]▶
> project to assess soil erosion and degradation in vineyards using geographical mapping systems and artificial intelligence (AI). ... AI helps me to design and polish the software codes that I use

Is this describing use of something like GitHub copilot?

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1. marginalia_nu ◴[20 Apr 25 18:29 UTC] No.43745526[source]▶
Sometimes I get the feeling you gotta tie your research to AI in some tenuous fashion to get research funding.
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2. elcritch ◴[20 Apr 25 19:08 UTC] No.43745806[source]▶
It’s not a feeling. Getting grants requires following whatever hype trend is popular at the moment.

Savvy academics know this and respond accordingly. Whether it’s AI (now) or DEI stuff (until recently), they add the required little sections and play the game.

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3. jimbokun ◴[20 Apr 25 20:01 UTC] No.43746157[source]▶
I bet AI is really good at writing grant proposals with all the right buzz words.
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4. datadrivenangel ◴[20 Apr 25 21:06 UTC] No.43746528{3}[source]▶
It's so good that some grant applications are switching to short video submissions.